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NEW YORK: Users of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles can now brag about their achievements on Facebook. Both systems are integrating the social network this week. Microsoft Corp. switched on a slew of new features for its Xbox Live online service, allowing owners of the Xbox 360 consoles to update Facebook and Twitter directly from their consoles. The console can also stream music from the Internet radio service Last.fm. Sony Corp.

By Paul Mozur HONG KONG: The light at the end of the tunnel may finally be coming into focus for Sony. The beleaguered Japanese electronics-maker said Wednesday that it would aim to achieve 500 billion yen (or about $4.2 billion) in annual operating profit by the fiscal year that ends in March 2018, a huge jump from the 20 billion yen that it has forecast for the current year. The optimism comes from the company's expectation that it will emerge from...

TOKYO: Sony Computer Entertainment said that the "Father of the PlayStation," Ken Kutaragi, is stepping down as chief executive of the video game giant as it battles fierce competition from its rivals. Kutaragi, 56, will become honorary chairman of the company, which has dominated the home video-game market since the 1994 launch of the original PlayStation console, the company said in a statement late Thursday. Kutaragi is the architect of the...

TOKYO: Sony will put off the release of its much- awaited PlayStation 3 machine until November from its planned spring debut because of delays in finalising its next-generation disk technology, the company said on Wednesday. Ken Kutaragi, head of Sony's video game division, made the announcement at a hastily called news conference after reports of the delay surfaced in the business daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The PlayStation 3 is critical for Sony's profits and...

NEW DELHI: Japanese car maker Nissan and Sony's PlayStation today launched GT Academy, a driver discovery and development programme, in India. The Nissan PlayStation GT Academy, which operates in various countries including Russia and the US, will choose six contestants from India to participate in the International Race Camp at Silverstone in the UK. Nissan and Sony held the first GT Academy in 2008. The academy takes people who are good at video games and turns them...

Read: Strange Rebels By: Christian Caryl Get it For: Rs 1,463 (25% off); indiatimes.com The Year that Shook the World Sometimes momentous revolutions happen suddenly, and sometimes many of them come, snapping at the heels of each other, with frenzied passions and cataclysmic events in a single year. In our internet-assaulted, tweet-infested and Facebookaddicted world, we have forgotten that more than three decades ago, a year rolled in with all its quotidian monotony,...

TOKYO: Sony Corp's game unit said on Tuesday it will cut the prices of its next generation PlayStation 3 game consoles in Japan next week, and offer a new low-range model in November. Sony Computer Entertainment Inc will cut the price of its model with 20 gigabytes of hard disk memory by about 10 per cent to 44,980 yen ($384; euro273) from the current 49,980 yen (US$427; euro303), effective Oct 17, the company said in a statement posted on its web site. The price of its 60GB...

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Tired of playing Lara Croft in Tomb Raider or Neo in The Matrix Trilogy on Playstation? Get ready to play Abhishek Bachchan in Dhoom or Shah Rukh Khan in Don on your Playstation. The Bollywood bandwagon looks all set to take on board the rising console gaming market in India, what with both Sony and Microsoft now counting on production houses to lend their movie rights to the gaming world. Sony, the maker of the Playstation, is...

TOKYO: Japan's Sony Corp is in talks to sell its production facilities for advanced microchips used in its PlayStation 3 game console to Toshiba Corp, sources close to the matter said. The sale, which would include production lines for the 'Cell' microchips, dubbed 'supercomputer on a chip', is part of Sony's strategy to shed costly semiconductor assets and focus on the production of strategic products such as image sensor chips used...

TOKYO: Sony sold 88,400 units of its PlayStation 3 game console in the first two days after the launch in Japan, leaving most stores without any stock, video game magazine publisher Enterbrain said on Monday. Sony started selling the latest version of its blockbuster game console in Japan on Saturday, and all indications point to a strong start. Sony plans to have the PS3 on shelves in North America on November 17, followed by a European launch in March. According...

NEW DELHI: The government may have permitted Japanese electronics major Sony to undertake cash and carry wholesale trading in India for a range of hi-tech products including LCD and Plasma WEGA, Net MD Walkman, VAIO laptops, Playstation 2 and battery chargers. The trading will be carried out through Sony Corporation's Indian subsidiary Sony India, sources said claiming, Sony's proposal has been cleared by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board in its meeting held on May 14. In...

CHIBA (JAPAN): The Tokyo Game Show, one of the world's largest gaming events, opened today, featuring next-generation home game consoles from Sony Corp and Microsoft Corp that will go on sale later this year in overseas markets. A record 352 exhibitors, including 162 from abroad, are showcasing game titles and devices at the four-day video game expo held at the Makuhari Messe convention centre in Chiba Prefecture east of Tokyo, according to the Computer...

Microsoft and Sony are battling more than just each other as they showcase new consoles at the Tokyo Game Show. They're also fighting for the attention of players of romance fantasies like "Kiss of Revenge. " Role-playing games, cloud-based gaming and vendors hawking products for costume-wearing fans are taking up more floor space as the show opens on Thursday in the birthplace of video-game machines. A record 342 exhibitors will attend the last major trade event before the...

Sony PlayStation Vita TV This surprising new console is the new Vita TV — a gadget that measures barely 60mm x 100mm. It connects wirelessly with PlayStation controllers and to your TV or projector using an HDMI port. For added measure, it also features an Ethernet port, USB port and memory card slot. Basically, the Vita TV can stream Vita games to your TV wirelessly. And when the PS4 launches, it will also wirelessly stream...

KOLKATA: The duel for survival, scoring goals in an international soccer match, chasing goons or racing cars may still pump adrenaline for kids and young adults, but are played more on smartphones and tablets than gaming consoles. As a result, sales of gaming consoles such as PlayStation, Xbox and Wii has come down by up to 30% in the first six months (Jan-June) of this year as compared to last year, which electronic retailers and console makers Sony and...

TOKYO: Sony is delaying the start of its "Home" virtual world for its PlayStation 3 video game machine until the latter half of this year - the second time the Japanese electronics and entertainment company has postponed the online interactive service. "Home" is a real-time interactive online world much like Linden Lab's "Second Life" and other so-called "metaverse," or a virtual world in computer graphics on a personal computer that allows people to walk around and...

Injustice for Xbox 360 & Playstation 3 (Rs 2,499): Injustice lets you play as various Superheroes and villains from the DC comic universe. The plot is slightly confusing at first as it involves two alternate realities, but it gets clearer as the game progresses. In one reality, the Joker destroys Metropolis with a nuclear bomb and tricks Superman into killing Lois Lane and his unborn child. In a fit of rage, Superman kills the Joker and establishes a new world order.

Disruption goes with technology, but every now and then a gadget comes out that rewrites the rules of the game. Like the iPod that was launched over a decade ago. These three here hold the same potential, and are setting social networks afire. ET takes a look at how they could subvert the consumer world.